It is official. Biden has dropped out of the race after the village heads of the Democratic Party went on pilgrimage to Rehoboth to tell the President that the troops were no longer at ease.
He got the message.
He went one step further to endorse Kamala Harris. That is a good thing. It assures that there will not be a bloodbath in starting from scratch to find a candidate. Kamala has been thoroughly vetted. They have one month to look for a Vice Presidential candidate.
The game changes. The outlook changes. The rhetoric will change. The dance steps will change as the music changes.
It’s Kamala time.
The question is: Can Kamala win?
Here’s my response to that question.
Harry Truman was largely overshadowed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Death took him away. Truman stepped up. He brought the Second World War to an end. He went on to declare those famous lines: “The Buck stops here.” He won re-election in his own right in 1948.
Lyndon B. Johnson was no match for John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s panache and showmanship, not to talk of his charisma. Again, death took him. LBJ went on to accomplish the Civil Rights legislation in 1964, and Voting Rights in 1965, followed by the Great Society body of legislation that helped lift millions of people out of poverty. In 1964, LBJ won re-election in his own right.
You have your answer right there.
Go Kamala.
Biden has taken a bow. No man is indispensable.
We do not create ourselves. Some people age well. Others do not. Some die young. Others live far into a largely lucid old age. Life is a gift. Good health is a gift. We own nothing. Did Shakespeare not famously say that “we are mere underlings?” We are clay. We come, and we go as the Potter desires.
Joe Biden has been in politics since 1970 first as a member of the Newcastle County Council and then, as US Senator from 1972.
God has been kind to him.
Biden has stepped down. Now, Kamala can step up.
Another President forgot to duck.
In 1981, President Reagan was shot at by a would-be assassin. He survived. When his wife, Nancy went to visit him in the hospital, he echoed the boxer, Jack Dempsey’s famous line—“honey, I forgot to duck.”
Trump is a lucky man. He reminds one of the movie, Day of the Jackal. In the movie, President Charles De Gaulle barely missed being killed as he bowed to accept a bouquet of flowers from a little girl.
Trump lives on to tell his story.
John F. Kennedy was not that lucky. On November 22, 1963, whilst riding in an open motorcade near Dealey Plaza in Dallas, JFK was felled by the bullet of an assassin.
Michael O. Ovienmhada
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